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To an investor in disambiguation — Looking for Action— "To me, the meaning was clear: when people search, they aren't just looking for nouns or information; they are…
"Rosetta Stone" as a Metaphor in Mathematical Narratives For some backgound, see Mathematics and Narrative from 2005. Yesterday's posts on mathematics and narrative discussed some properties of…
For Kathrin Bringmann, who has been mentioned as a possible candidate for a Fields Medal. The four Fields medal winners were announced today at the International Congress of…
Group Actions, 1984-2009 From a 1984 book review: "After three decades of intensive research by hundreds of group theorists, the century old problem of the classification of the…
Three Times "Credences of Summer," VII, by Wallace Stevens, from Transport to Summer (1947) "Three times the concentred self takes hold, three times The thrice concentred…
Metaphysical Wonderlands "With no means to verify its truth, superstring theory, in the words of Burton Richter, director emeritus of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, may turn out…
Mathematics and Narrative continued "There is a pleasantly discursive treatment of Pontius Pilate's unanswered question 'What is truth?'" — H. S. M. Coxeter, 1987, introduction to Richard J….
The Tiffany Code 5:01:58 AM ET: A link for Jill St. John's birthday — The Geometrics of Brilliance Twinkle, twinkle… Beach reading for brilliant redheads… and for everyone…
Instantia Crucis "Francis Bacon used the phrase instantia crucis, 'crucial instance,' to refer to something in an experiment that proves one of two hypotheses and disproves the other….
O'Hara's Fingerpost In The New York Times Book Review of next Sunday (August 24, 2003), Book Review editor Charles McGrath writes that author John O'Hara "… discovered a…